The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-03
"Oh-heml Who was your pa9'
doctor Rollingtalt."

Happy Hil2
Lotto nodded. She could not rpeak.
She began to think thia torment lasted
long enough, and drew her Grape veil over
her face, preparing to slip away.
"Snith Collcge--let mo see-that Ia In
Po'keepsie, ain'tit?' Mr.. Brown thought
fully. "Oh no. Wellesley. ! remem-
Der, now. Wellesley. Pity you hai'n't
got your diploma. Likely your pa must
have enent q sight on yer eddication.-
conlan,t geta school up yer why higher
homer" a-.
az thirk they wanted to take mo, some
OF Them" said Lotto hastily, "but they
were loa!)y and truly all full, with
good, nice girls that deserved tho places.
couldn't expect them to be turned out,
because l wss in trouble. but | wouldn't
have you think our neighbo,s didn't wan!
to help their DOCTORS daughter. Good VI.
~ternoon, sir" n
.'Wall, good afternoon" said Mr.. Brown.
"Oar teacher has rot the symptoms. II
she whoops by Tuesday mornin' NO uhnll
hev 10 hev a supply. We've had thirteen
applicants Already, jas' on tho chance OF
that whoop. Maybe 'twon't conc to moth.
in. dessay you ken spell, ityour father
spent so much on you rs you say. But
'tTonldn't do Tor me to hold out no hopcs.
You're the fourteenth I've sstr ssucs day
before yes'day. An maybe she won't
never wloop, uowhow. That's about how
1t Ia"
When poor Lotto got homo from Browns
Ferry she found o letter from Mary Mace
sadly and gently telling her that the posi-.
ton at South Hadley ahe had in mind was
taken a month ago. There was another
letter from one Of her tsachefs at North
ampton, which broke to her kindly tho
fact that the Academy In Vermont pro-
fetred q graduate. Tho President himself
wrote a line, TO express bis sympathy with
her trouble. aud his regret that he he'd
found nothing as yet, Tor her. Fern wrote
to say that her fRther eaid the public
schools IN Boston wore taught by people
who held the positions a long time, and
that the chance OF obtaining ono was ANAL,
and why didn't Lotto plan to spend the
summer with them, al Beyerly2 Nelly
Hope sent g telegram to ssy that the gill
In South Carolina who WAS going TO leave
the Negro College to be married, had
broken her engagement, md wonld retsin
hsr position in the department Of rhetoric
in that institution. Lotto had to pay tSsu-
ty-iye cent? Tor the delivery Of the teIe-
gram and ssrd Nelly thirty-ssysn more
Tor, the prepayment Of it.
Ihe poor gltl's pfcspeeta fer supporting
tho family were Ia this incoherens state.
when, Oh Wednesday morning, az she
Tan sitting in her blue room, hopelessly
crochetipg a royal.puspie mitten for the
pea'greon old lady who bought the sky
blue hood, ard had miraculously returned
to The grocer with the news that her
dentists bill WIS smaller, than she ex.
pec.ed, and If abe had a pair Of mitteus
q the precise shade OF purple she thought
ens'd llke 10 see nlong o that hood, she
didn't know but she'd take 'em--as Lotto
was thus patiently sitting, Melted within
her web Of purple worateG, with crooked
fingers. anu eweet, aad face, and aching
shoulders end heavy heart S'reeny
came up.stai's with soma cookies, aud the
announcement that q man wanted to see
the Doctors daughter in the parlo-.
1t waa MI. Brown. He came to Inform
Lotto that the TEACHER at Brownie Ferry
Grammar Schoo! had heen excused to
have tho Thooping.cough, and that be
DIDN'T know but that Lotto might az we'll
have the supply till Miss Mizsry got we'll,
"she begun to whoop some q Monday
night said Nh. Brown" aud alopy a SO
many echolsrs that you amt sure Of, aud
takih'ia tleu you know hasn't. the com
mlt'ee told her she'd better stay to hum.
She was exposed long OF her hali.sister,
which IS al infant, and Miss Mizery sleeps
with her. Can't say how long you'll bs
wanted. She rno;ght whcop two weeks,
and she moight whoop eix months. I've
known 'em TO whoop O year, edded Mr..
Brown cncourssiDely, Though they was
mostly babies. Yer pad known maybe,
II he'd S been byin'. Better cone along
in my team-sage eypenne-an' Get yer
traps iast as ye know how"
'she may Whcop Tor years, and she may
Whoop forever" cried Lotto as she kissed
her mother good.by between { laugh and
a sob, and :%oufage0csly departed with Mr,
brown Tor Browns Ferry. "A.
Mics Misery did not whoou farsyex,
She whooped till the end Of the tenn. and
someW'hst into VACATION. Long before the
next term began, it wsg evident that che
would b. restored both ia 'thein that had,
and those that hadn't" among her pupils,
and that Loto's services would not be
needed farther in that institution, She
taught dvs weeka in Brogu's Ferry, aud
received iron shc committee the sum OF
thirty:one dollars and twenty-five canta,
and found" MIR. Brown "iourd" her
that is 10 aay he boarded her in his own
family, and treated hor Hospitality to
enough OF everything, more particularly
~d9ugnnuts and pies. He expressed him.
seit to the elect that she wss a very well
dedicated" young woman, and no wished
they had q vacancy to5 her in Browns
Ferry. Lotto always ielt that Mr.. Rrovr
had been impressed by the reign OF the
Virgin Mary on the throne OF England.
So Lotto came home to her mother with
her thirty.one dollars and twenty-five
cents, and her problem before her, e,il
unsolved. What 10 do2 How 10 do III
Where to seek? What to Aopse When
to despair
y wont give it up" said Lotto doggcdly
Her bright face had lost something Of it,
sparkle. Her hair seemed less curly thar
it used TO do. Her dimpls seemed Ia have
forgotten the way to the SURFACE, Of he!
blooming cheek: Yut stesdily and stuydil,
her young eyea looked out at her is;s.
II wont give it up. Tn a well gil, Will
an education ipart OF one) and common
sense, and vii! End 4 way to support n,
fathers family kiss me, mamma, ant
take the money" -
At viii 20 towards the groceris bill, :
said Mrs. Rollinstall sor:owfully. VA
oh. ! hate toi" ,&g
Lotto and he: mother wore alone viii
s'reeny and Dash in the sad aud silen'
house. Slam had gone weekH since, t.
his Uncle Johns, where he would snrnt
q part at lesst Of tbs vacation, maxim,
himself nseiul in having time, and so q
) on in tho autumn term with his worl
alrea y begun in the Academy. Slam wa
noisy, but he was Slam, and they leyet
, him. It was very lonely. The two wo
men looked into esch others faces brave
ly; but the tears started. What, oh wAa
, should they do2
S'reeay usu,e In while they sat ther,
alone In the twilight that July night, ant